Interviews

William H. Coles is a literary fiction writer, winner of multiple awards including finalists The William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition, The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, among others. His fiction publications include five novels, collections of short fiction and three books on the writing of literary fiction stories.

To learn the art of writing fiction he studied in more than 100 courses and workshops with instruction from more than seventy-five authors, editors, and teachers and created storyinliteraryfiction, a website with resources for fiction writers, illustrators, and avid literary-fiction readers.

He was an ophthalmic surgeon specializing in ocular-injury repair and […]

Debra Webb is a wife, mother, grandmother and life-long learner. As a teacher she learned the power of believing in yourself and positive self talk. She started her own journey of choosing to live in balance with a sense of peace and joy over 30 years ago and continues to practice the thinking and skills to increase this in her life. She lives in Phoenix, AZ and Gleneden, Oregon with her husband where she enjoys family dinners, gardening, and walking in the desert or on the beach.

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Practicing Mindful Living has been in process spanning […]

My name is Dave Dröge (Vlaardingen, 1966). I worked in ICT (development and design) and graduated in psychology at the Erasmus University and the Open University, including getting a BAPD qualification for diagnostics. From 2010 I mainly write novels: the first two years a trilogy about three writers who have an ambitious plan, establish a metaphysical revolution through an artistic event, simultaneously held in Paris and Amsterdam. The following year I wrote a relatively short novel which describes a dream world faced with a harsh reality. Recently I wrote The Game Changer, a large-scale novel about a company doctor […]

Stanley Chao has been doing working in China for over 20+ years assisting small and medium-sized companies in their China business. His company, All In Consulting, has done over 200 projects for over 100 Western companies. Chao resides in Los Angeles.

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Selling to China is a primer for any business wanting to go to China, or has gone to China and failed. It’s based on my 20+ years of doing business in China and my advise is based on real business cases and lessons.

Why did you want to write a book?

No one has […]

Born and raised in Canada, worked as a lawyer and partner in a mega-law firm for many years then chucked everything and made a break for L.A. to pursue a (pipe) dream of being a working screenwriter. A couple of years later, I went crawling back to that jealous mistress THE LAW, and have been practicing law in my own solo firm, in the US and Canada, and writing novels and short pieces since.

I have two great and very creative kids, and a really cool and supportive husband, who encouraged me to pick up those early books of mine, […]

Robert has lived all around the United States at one time or another for brief periods. Born in Northern Virginia, he is now a happily married father of four, residing just outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. He developed his passion for writing at an early age, mostly through poetry, being published for the first time at seventeen. Later, with his love of the outdoors and with a survivalist mentality, his passion evolved into writing short stories and finally into full length novels focusing mainly in the post-apocalyptic/horror and the suspense/thriller genres.

With two titles already under his belt, (the post-apocalyptic […]

Andi Hayes currently resides in the swamplands of Georgia with her assistant, Bratskulla The Magical Cat. Former singer/keyboardist in a seminal goth/punk/death rock band in L.A. called The Web, she has recorded 2 solo CDs: “Eyeballs in the Ocean” and “The Secret World of Planets.”

An animal-loving vegan, she is fascinated with all things to do with rabbit holes, exposing evils, self-evident truths and unexplained mysteries. She was either a mouse or a mermaid in her previous life but was definitely born playing piano. The Rebellious Earthling (a fantasy novel for grown-up adults) is her second novel, with her first […]

I am an international banker. My first book, Boosting You, was about helping people become better executives. It was published in 2010. After that, I have written many articles about relationships on Thought Catalog.

Why did you want to write a book?

Through observation and experience, I believe I have an answer to many of the questions we ask ourselves in the field of romance and relationships. I felt it my duty to share these answers with others, especially that I found an original plot to do so.

Why did you choose to self-publish?

Major publishers will not consider you […]